Computer Games: Text, Narrative and Play Hardcover - 2006 - 1st Edition
by Diane Carr; David Buckingham; Andrew Burn
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Computer games are one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving media of our time. Revenues from console and computer games have now overtaken those from Hollywood movies; and online gaming is one of the fastest-growing areas of the internet. Games are no longer just kids' stuff: the majority of players are now adults, and the market is constantly broadening. The visual style of games has become increasingly sophisticated, and the complexities of game-play are ever more challenging. Meanwhile, the iconography and generic forms of games are increasingly influencing a whole range of other media, from films and television to books and toys.
This book provides a systematic, comprehensive introduction to the analysis of computer and video games. It introduces key concepts and approaches drawn from literary, film and media theory in an accessible and concrete manner; and it tests their use and relevance by applying them to a small but representative selection of role-playing and action-adventure games. It combines methods of textual analysis and audience research, showing how the combination of such methods can give a more complete picture of these playable texts and the fan cultures they generate. Clearly written and engaging, it will be a key text for students in the field and for all those with an interest in taking games seriously.
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- Title Computer Games: Text, Narrative and Play
- Author Diane Carr; David Buckingham; Andrew Burn
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge
- Date 2006-03-31
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780745634005 / 0745634001
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.68 x 6.9 x 0.85 in (24.59 x 17.53 x 2.16 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.487
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